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Call External Stored Procedures

Hi, Our company uses a lot of external stored procedures (mainly written in Cobol, Java). It would be great if the IDz gets a possibility to call them. After entering the input parameters, the result (e.g. output parameters or result sets) is disp...
23 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Provide support to switch UID in zExplorers/iDZ

Hello, under zOS we more and more have to deal with USS services and zFS-files. As a zOS systems-programmer not everybody knows in deep the possbilities and features of USS. Often we need to switch to UID 0 to do specific file-changes and this is ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration

Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Please add a digital signature for program bundled with IDz \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe

Currently there is no digital signature when viewing the properties of the file \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe in Windows. Setting a digital signature on \idz\bin\PPINCL01.exe indicates that the program has been created by IBM and has not been tampered with.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

Re-order the JES output results from a Remote zOS File Search when a PDSE member list is wildcarded.

When using IDz and performing a Remote zOS File Search that uses a wild-carded PDSE member selection (e.g. PPH2*) rather than the entire PDSE, that the output that is presented back to the user in JES output from the job is not in the same order a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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